Bad quest designs - Page 3

Jimjam · #21 02-27-2024, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

True, although I think a point OP was alluding to is depending on the type and location of the PH (i.e., static camp in an obscure area that spawns mobs totally unrelated to the quest mob), and spawn chance of the mob, there could've been a decent chance that no one would ever figure it out and that's a bit of bad design. In the case of this specific quest, better design probably would've been to increase the number of PHs to include more mobs that wander throughout LFay.

You weren't meant to figure it out - people were meant to wander about murderhoboing random mobs and that would eventually spawn the specific mobs other people would kill.

The way we do specific camps and kill no things besides those (so not 'accidently' kill phers for rares in open zones) is far from the expectations of how players would/should play.

magnetaress · #22 02-27-2024, 09:18 PM

Or did play.

I never camped a "named" in 1999 personally.

magnetaress · #23 02-27-2024, 09:20 PM

Getting shiny brass halbered was a totally accidental surprise and rly cool because all I figured was it was ex orcs with ringmail.

magnetaress · #24 02-27-2024, 09:20 PM

Exp* orcs*

Pulgasari · #25 02-28-2024, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Tnair [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This was early days when they literally were guessing what an MMO player group would even do, and they were designing based on guesses and hopes. Not tryna argue that Brad was a genius playing 5 dimensional chess or anything. EQ1 is a mess. A beloved mess.

'Hunting' and then going back to town to recover and broker your treasure was the previous model of MMO before EQ.

roks1 · #26 02-28-2024, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Holy tldrs batman. Read thread title. Saw multiple walls of text. Made this post.

Can we plz at least get a bullet point of the offensive quests plz. Like at a minimum. Example:

cleric epic - pearl shards in sky fire for days
wizard epic - fucking staffs lol
jboots - bottlenecks (both hasten and Aac ring)
soulfire - non pallies and long Lucan spawns
good militia tunic traitor guy - paladins killing Lucan the turn in mob

you wot m8?

Cleric epic -- sit in nagafen's lair with your guild to make sure no one else ganked your ragefire spawn / turn in
jboots -- ks contest for pyzjyn
soulfire -- soulfire was just a paladin thing that was cool, there wasn't exactly hordes of paladins running around when that quest dropped, paladins capable of doing soulfire were the bottleneck , not lucan

wizard epic yeah i guess, except, instead of the golem turn in in Fear, you had to get a ultra hyper rare drop from cazic thule himself, skin of cazic thule.